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Mexico's '05 job growth is called record

By Diane Lindquist
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 4, 2006

TIJUANA – Mexican Labor Secretary Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz said this week that the country created a record number of jobs last year, but he conceded it was not enough to stem the illegal flow of Mexicans seeking work in the United States.

In a interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune after delivering a speech here at the Ibero-American University, Salazar said, “We had a very good year in 2005.â€